Automatic closing-valve.



No. 735,671. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

f J. KNOCHE.

AUTOMATIC CLOSING VALVE.

.A PPLIOATION FILED APR. 1, 190s.

N0 MODEL.

www..

THE nomas versus co. pHoro-uma.. WASHINGTON. n. c

No. 735,671. Patented August 4, 1903.

UNITED STATESv` PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN KNOCI-IE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HELEN VOCKE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. l

AUTOMATIC CLOSING-VALVE.

ASIPECIFICALION' formingoart of Letters Patent N 0. 735,671, dated August 4, 1903.

Application led April l, 1903. Serial No. 150.518. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The upper end of this block .G projects Be it known thatI, JOHN KNOCHE, a citithrough the disk CL and engages under the zen of the United. States, residing at Cincinvalve-disk C. This lever E, push-rod F, and nati, in the county of Hamilton and State of slip-block G are for raising the valve-disk C 55 5 Ohio, have invented certain new and useful and for resetting the same.

Improvements in Automatic Closing Valves, .I represents a bell-crank lever pivoted on of which the followingis a specification. bracket D, the short arm d of vwhich lever My invention relates to a valve mechanism rests against the side of the valve-stem C', primarily adapted to be employed in a iilling as shown in Fig. 1, when the valve is closed 6o ro utensil, such as a funnel, used for transferand which when the valve is raised occupies ring liquids. the position under the valve-stem, holding` rIhe object of my invention is to produce an the valve-disk up, as shown in Fig. 9,. automatic valve mechanism actuated by the I represents a trip-lever pivoted on bracket lheight of the liquid in the vessel to be iilled D, having a short upwardly-projccting iinger 65 I5 and so constructed as to be readily reset. c, which engages the long arm of the lever J My invention further comprises the arwhen the valve is raised, as shown in Fig. 2. rangement of valve and trip mechanism here- Lever I has a long finger projecting into the inafter described and claimed. tube H and resting against a connecting-rod The features of my invention are more fully K therein. 7o

2o set forth in the description of the accompany- L represents a cylinder supported from the ing drawings, forming apart of this specificaend of the tube H, within which cylinder is tion, in whicha lioat M, upon which is supported the rod K.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section of my N represents an admission-valve-closing device in closed position. Fig. 2 is a similar disk connected by means of ascrew N to the 75 2 5 section, partly in elevation, showing the valve disk CL2 and adapted to be raised or lowered by ,in open position. Fig. 3 is a bottom view means of the screw to cover or uncover the taken on line a, Fig. 2. orifices b, and so opening and closing the fun- A represents a funnel having a stem a. nel independently of the valve mechanism. B represents the valve-casing the periph- Mode of operation: The compartment L is 8o 3o eral sides of which iit the inside periphery of placed in the neck of the bottle or the openthe funnel. It is provided with the two disks ing of the vessel to be iilled, the valve being a CL2, of which disk a2 is on topv andV provided in open position, as shown in Fig. When with the admission-oriiic'es b. Disk u/ is unthe liquid rises to the top of the vessel and der and is provided with an admission-orifice into the compartment L, float M rises, lift- 85 3 5 c, which is controlled by avalve-disk C, lying ing the connecting -rod K, tripping lever I upon disk a and covering the said orifice c. from the engagement with leverJ and so caus- C represents the valve-stem of said valveing the disk-valve C to drop, as shown in Fig. disk C projecting downwardly through disk l, closing the valve-opening c. a'. The valve-casing B is provided with a To raise the valve and reset the same, the 9o 4o depending bracket D, to which are pivoted rod F is pushed downward, which raises the the following trip-levers. slip-block G and the valve-disk C, allowing E represents a lever against the outer edge the short arm d of the lever J to fall into the of which a push-rod F engages, which pushposition under the end of the valve-stem C', rod slides in a stem f, supported parallel as previously described and shown in Fig. 2. 95 45 with the side of the funnel. The other side It is obvious that this device is automaticof said lever E bears against or projects into ally tripped by the rise of the liquid to a given a notch in a vertically-sliding block G. This height and has to be manually reset for the block bears against the side of a tube I-I, susnext operation. t pended from the valve-casingB into the stem Having described my invention, what I roo 5o a of the funnel A. The lower end of this claim is block G rests upon a iange 71, of the tube H. 1. In a vessel for receiving fluids, a valvecasing, having a disk across the mouth of said vessel, an admission-orifice therein, a disk closing the same, thc closing-disk resting on the valve-casing disk, the valve-closing disk having a stem projecting through said casingdisk, a sliding lift engaging the valve-closing disk, a lever engaging said lift, and a pushpin engaging said lever for raising said vaiveclosing disk,tripping mechanism on the valvecasin g adapted to automatically drop into position under said valve-ste1n supporting the same when the valve-closing disk is raised, and a float adapted to knock the tripping mechanism from supporting position under said valve-stein at a given Huid-level, substantially as describe 2. In a funnel for receiving and transmitting fluids, a \f'alve-casing, a valve-disk across .the month thereof having an admission-oriflee, a valve-closing disk thereon having a stem projecting through the casing-disk, a sliding lift engaging the valve-closing disk, a lever engaging said lift, and a push-pin engaging said lever for raising said valve-clos ing disk,tripping mechanism adapted to automatically fall into supporting position under the valve-stem when the valve is open, a tube depending from the funnel, and aioat therein adapted to actuate said tripping mechanism at a given fluid height, whereby the valve is automatically closed, substantially as dcscribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN KNOCHE. Witnesses:

OLIVER B. KAISER, LULU BECK. 

